For Arkansas, the 2010 figure was a 19.7 percent four-year graduation rate for students seeking a bachelor's degree and 38.7 six-year graduate rate.

This is abysmal, by the way, ahead of only Idaho, Alaska and the District of Columbia for six-year rates.

Here's the comparison for six-year rates at four-year public colleges — led by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (57.9) and trailed by UALR (20.8). UALR is an urban school with loads of non-traditional students, many seeking enrichment courses, it should be said. This chart also compares relative costs of completing a degree at each school and completion by, for example, students with Pell grants (UAPB leads the way).

Here's the comparison of completion rates at two-year colleges on certificate and degree programs of at least one year. Tops at completion in 150 percent of the minimum (three years for a two-year associate degree program, for example) was SAU-Tech at 44.4 and South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado at 9.2. Rapidly expanding Pulaski Tech has seen its completion rate drop as it has grown to 11.1 percent.

The Arkansas Democratic Party has waded hip-deep (maybe over its head) into the suddenly hot issue of Confederate statuary. It has called for removal of such monuments to museums or private places.

Another member of Gov. Asa Hutchinson's senior staff is heading for the exit. Kelly Eichler, senior advisor for criminal justice (and a Hutchinson appointee to the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees) has given notice she'll be leaving in a couple of weeks.

Sen. Jason Rapert really, really didn't like it when a KATV reporter asked him about the hypocrisy of his political arguments.

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Watching the Charlottesville spectacle from halfway across the country, I confess that my first instinct was to raillery. Vanilla ISIS, somebody called this mob of would-be Nazis. A parade of love-deprived nerds marching bravely out of their parents' basements carrying tiki torches from Home Depot.

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A man who says he's a former University of Arkansas student now living in New England has identified himself as the person wearing an "Arkansas Engineering" T-shirt in the Friday white supremacist march in Fayetteville. He apologized for involving UA in the story and to the professor misidentified as being the person wearing the shirt.

The Arkansas Democratic Party has waded hip-deep (maybe over its head) into the suddenly hot issue of Confederate statuary. It has called for removal of such monuments to museums or private places.

Another member of Gov. Asa Hutchinson's senior staff is heading for the exit. Kelly Eichler, senior advisor for criminal justice (and a Hutchinson appointee to the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees) has given notice she'll be leaving in a couple of weeks.

The Arkansas Department of Correction has the drugs it needs to perform an execution and Governor Hutchinson plans to set a date for Jack Gordon Greene to be put to death, a spokesman for the governor said today.

The Hot Springs Sentinel-Record reports that the city of Hot Springs has notified owners of the Arlington Hotel that it must make repairs to address safety concerns by Nov. 8 or the historic hotel must close.